It certainly has to be a "collective" or more precisely an across the board event as we have so many on the dole,idled auto workers getting 70 % of pay and 100 % medical,sub rosa economics,unconsionable 0 result social programs,and third or fourth generation welfare recipients with an ever expanding economy !

and no longer does society produce enough to support the above so government must borrow trillions to maintain the current system and expenses are rising rapidly as tax receipts/production is evaporating.

The system is at the critical point right now.....leaving very few options for government to increase production.

Not long after the Bolshevik revolution, when Russia had intentionally destroyed her money, Lenin came to the conclusion that pure Communism would not work and sought to re-introduce capitalism, in limited amounts, to the economy. His motivation was the realization that philosophical theories and rousing speeches do not change human nature. If each gets some, few will do much, leading to a "death spiral" of productivity not unlike the economic "death spiral" we have in the United States today.

The amazing thing isn't that it took Lenin several years to realize something that any sane, rational person could have told him from the get-go, but that there are vast swaths of United States population that believe this time it will work.